Norma Tolbert attended Liberty School as a child and has played a large part in the effort to relocate the historic building to the Campbell-Gray Farmstead at Nathanael Greene Park.

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The historic one-room Liberty School, long closed and leaning slightly to one side, will soon get a new life as part of the Gray-Campbell Farmstead.

A campaign to save the Greene County structure, which was built about 1900, started five years ago and was led by those with personal ties to the schoolhouse closed in 1951.

"It's a family connection I have, but preserving it for educational and historical purposes is my motivation," said Norma Tolbert, who has been at the forefront of the effort. "It has become a symbol - to save Liberty and to teach it." ...